Health Professionals In Kogi Protest Colleague's Death

ON Tuesday, ward attendants at Kogi State's Federal Teaching Hospital in Lokoja organized a nonviolent demonstration in response to the passing of Salamatu Aliu, one of their coworkers.

The hospital staff called on the Federal Ministry of Health to shine its searchlight on the hospital in response to the death of a deceased attendant from the post-natal unit.

Aliu was taken to the hospital on Sunday night for medical attention, according to a staff member who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Aliu worked the seven-day night shift.

However, doctors and nurses on duty claimed to have referred the sick workers to the Specialist Hospital in Lokoja due to the hospital's shortage of electricity.

The unidentified attendant claimed that before receiving medical attention, Aliu passed away while traveling to the Specialist Hospital.

The Federal Teaching Hospital's physicians and nurses were charged by the demonstrators with a careless attitude leading to the attendant's death.

They claimed that the doctors' and nurses' apparent carelessness was inappropriate for the Accident and Emergency Room.

The ward attendants screamed chants like “Stop treating us unfairly as if we are not human” and “All lives matter and are equal.”